Ojogbon Globalization

This is a reading of the third and final part of the paper, “You can’t go Home no More”: Africans in America in the Age of Globalization, from the Draft of Chapter 2 in West African migrations : transnational and global pathways in a new century, edited by Mojúbàolú Oluf́únké Okome and Olufemi Vaughan, published by Palgrave Macmillan, NY 2012, pp. 15-40 Home, Identity and Identity Politics – an Introduction• Àjò ò lè dùn k’ónílé má re’lé (no matter how enjoyable the journey might be, one is bound to return home).• Ilé l’àbò ìsinmi oko – Home is the resting place for those returning from the farm (labor). You labor abroad and rest at home.There are many clichés about home – Home is where the heart is, for instance. However, since this is a contribution to a project on Transnational Africa and Globalization foregrounding how personal experiences, professional interests, and scholarship shaped experiences of Diaspora and Transnationality, I feel the necessity to return to Nigeria fro...

Princess Sarah  Segilola  Odulaja, Rest in Peace My mother passed away on this day 6 years ago. I became sick two days ago just thinking about what a huge loss this is. The passage of time is yet to deaden the pain. But whether we live or die, it is for the Lord. Mama went to the glory, but she lives on in our hearts. She left huge shoes to fill in terms of her faith in God, honesty, optimism, kindness and generosity. May we be able to live up to her expectations of us. May her soul continue to rest in peace. She wrote this piece while staying with me. I could not have completed work on my dissertation had she not helped take care of my younger son, even though we had just lost my only brother the same month my son was born. The autobiography of Princess Sarah  Segilola  Odulaja was written while she was on a visit to New York, during the months of June and July 1999. By Sarah  Segilola  Odulaja To the Glory of God I was born in the ...